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Keith Melville, PhD (1983*) New York, New York
PhD , Columbia University, 1983

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Selected Publications:

• Author of more than 30 magazine-length reports on public issues including immigration, income inequality, the culture wars, welfare, America's global role, senior entitlement programs, and health care reform, published Kendall-Hunt and McGraw-Hill
• The quality of American life in the 1980s, Report for the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the 1980s, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1981
• Marriage and Family Today, five editions, Random House and McGraw-Hill, first edition 1977
• Communes in the Counter Culture, William Morrow, 1972
• Chapter in The Deliberative Democracy Handbook, edited by John Gastil and Peter Levine (Jossey-Bass, 2005), chapter 3 (with John Dedrick and Taylor Willingham) "National Issues Forums: A Network of communities promoting public deliberation."
• The High School Dropout Crisis, Pew Charitable Trust. 2006.

Special Interests: Public issues and civic education, scholarly competencies, public opinion, applied social research.

Related Professional Activities: Associate, Kettering Foundation; Creator and Executive Editor, Public Agenda Online; Former Senior Vice President, Public Agenda Foundation; Former Executive Editor, National Issues Forum.